AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Pictures: 'The Mayflower, 1620' (unattributed), and 'Ships of the United States Navy in Port Phillip, 1908' by A. E. Woolcott, [81].
• Poetry: 'The Republic' from The Building of the Ship by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.), with illus. 'The Kansas, one of the United States Fleet that Visited Australia in 1908' by S. C. Sayers, and 'The Seattle (se'-at'l), to Arrive in Hobson's Bay, 23rd July, This Year' (unattributed), [81]-82; 'Some of Benjamin Fanklin's Proverbs', 82; 'The Boy Columbus' by 'Anonymous', 86; 'The First Thanksgiving Day' by American author Margaret J. Preston (1820-1897), with illus. 'They ate at the varied riches of gardens and woods and waves', 89-90; 'Old Ironsides' by American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes (q.v.), 94.
• Geography: 'A Tour of the United States of America' from Cassell's Book of Knowledge by Harold P. B. Wheeler, with map : 'United States', 83-85.
• History: 'The Founding of New Plymouth by the Pilgrim Fathers' by Robert Mackenzie, with illus. 'The Pilgrim Exiles', 87-88; 'George Washington : The Father of His Country' (unattributed), with illus. 'Washington Resigning his Commission as Commander-in-Chief, 23rd December, 1783' and 'The Washington Monument, 555 Feet High, Washington, U.S.A.', 90-92; 'The Declaration of Independence, 1776' (unattributed), 92-93.
• Song: 'The Star-Spangled Banner', words by American lawyer and amateur poet F. S. [Francis Scott] Key (1779-1843) and music by British composer John Stafford Smith (1750-1836), 95-96.
• Supplement: 'Made in Australia : 15. Electricity and its Applications' by the Made in Australia Council, 312 Flinders Street, Melbourne, with unattributed illus. 'The Chief Fount and Origin of Victorian Electricity Supply', 'Sub-station Along the Main Yallourn Cable-route', and 'An Electronic Radiator', i-iv.